Register-SCVMHost

Associates a VMware ESX host with Virtual Machine Manager as a virtual machine host and specifies credentials to manage the host.

Description

The Register-SCVMHost cmdlet associates a VMware ESX host with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) as a virtual machine host and specifies the credentials to use with this ESX host.

For more information about Register-SCVMHost, type: "Get-Help Register-SCVMHost -online".

Parameters

VMHost

Required? true
Accept Pipeline Input? true (ByValue)
Position? 0
Specifies a virtual machine host object. VMM supports Hyper-V hosts, VMware ESX hosts, and Citrix XenServer hosts. 

For more information about each type of host, type: "Get-Help Add-SCVMHost -detailed". See the examples for a specific cmdlet to determine how that cmdlet uses this parameter.

Certificate

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies a security certificate object.

Credential

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies a credential object or, for some cmdlets, a Run As account object that contains the user name and password of an account that has permission to perform this action. Or, in the case of Restart-SCJob, has permission to complete a restarted task. 

For more information about the PSCredential object, type: "Get-Help Get-Credential". 
For more information about Run As accounts, type: "Get-Help New-SCRunAsAccount".

JobVariable

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter. 

PROTipID

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies the ID of the PRO tip that triggered this action. This allows for auditing of PRO tips.

RunAsynchronously

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately. 

SshPublicKey

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies the public key used by Secure Shell (SSH) communications. 

SshPublicKeyFile

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies the path to the public key file for establishing a secured SSH channel with the target hosts.

SshTcpPort

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies the TCP port number used by the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol.

TCPPort

Required? false
Accept Pipeline Input? false
Position? named
Specifies a numeric value that represents a TCP port. 

Examples

1: Set the credentials for a specific VMware ESX host.
PS C:\> $RunAsAccount = Get-SCRunAsAccount -Name "ESX Host Computer Acct"
PS C:\> $ESXHost = Get-SCVMHost -ComputerName "ESXHost02.Contoso.com"
PS C:\> Register-SCVMHost -VMHost $ESXHost -Credential $RunAsAccount
The first command gets the Run As account object named ESX Host Computer Acct and stores the object in the $RunAsAccount variable.

The second command gets the ESX host object named ESXHost02 and stores the object in the $ESXHost variable.

The last command associates the VMware ESX host with VMM as a managed host, and specifies that the Run As account stored in $Credential should be used to access ESXHost02. 
2: Set the credentials and certificate for a specific VMware ESX host.
PS C:\> $RunAsAccount = Get-SCRunAsAccount -Name "ESX Host Computer Acct"
PS C:\> $ESXHost = Get-SCVMHost -ComputerName "ESXHost03.contoso.com"
PS C:\> $Cert = Get-SCCertificate -ComputerName "ESXHost03.contoso.com"
PS C:\> Register-SCVMHost -VMHost $ESXHost -Credential $RunAsAccount -Certificate $Cert
The first command gets the Run As account object named ESX Host Computer Acct and stores the object in the $RunAsAccount variable. The required credentials for this operation are either a root account (root/<password>) or the account for the VMware delegated administrator defined earlier in VirtualCenter Server for this ESX host..

The second command gets the the VMware ESX host object named ESXHost03 and stores the object in the $ESXHost variable.

The third command uses the Get-SCCertificate cmdlet to get the certificate object from ESXHost02 and stores the object in the $Cert variable.

The last command associates this VMware ESX Server with VMM as a managed host and specifies that the credentials used to access ESXHost02 are those stored in $RunAsAccount.

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